[Solved] (not) Detecting Disabled Portals

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Sprowl
97 Posts
#93944
Posted Apr 23, 2013
Heya guys,

I got a question about VScripts 'n' Stuff. Right now I have a script that checks in a specific radius for some entities - playet, cubes and also portals. I don't have any problems with cubes and the player, but I have a little problem with portals after they got fizzled through a trigger_portal_cleanser. The script still detects that there is a portal, because, in fact, the prop_portal is still there. Its active state was just set to '0'.

Now I could put an output to every fizzler and place portals at the world origin and close them again so they are no more near the area the script checks for entites. But maybe someone here have a better idea, like reading the active state of the portal (is that possible?) or add an output to every fizzler onMapSpawn so I don't have to do it manually for every one.

So... any ideas? :smile:

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BenVlodgi
633 Posts
#93955
Posted Apr 24, 2013
Replied 8 hours later
yah, you could place prop_portals in your map (at the origin if you please) and just turn them on and off, and they will move there
couldn't you just exclude the entries based off of their 'active' property though?
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Sprowl
97 Posts
#93972
Posted Apr 24, 2013
Replied 11 hours later
That's the problem: I don't know how I could detect the off-state. func_portal_detectors in the detectable area are buggy as hell so I can't and don't want to use them.
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josepezdj
2,386 Posts
#93973
Posted Apr 24, 2013
Replied 15 minutes later
I guess Ben meant in your script, it could be possible to filter your entry by that keyvalue "Activated" depending on its value "1" or "0". Make it to ignore the entities with value "1" for that keyvalue :wink:
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Sprowl
97 Posts
#93975
Posted Apr 24, 2013
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Then tell me what function I need to write into my fancy editor to get the keyvalues of an entity :wink: . Because I don't know that function and I couldn't even find it on the function list on the VDC. Maybe I oversee it.

I talked with Felix about this and he said that this isn't possible. Now I'm curious who's right :lol: .

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josepezdj
2,386 Posts
#93977
Posted Apr 24, 2013
Replied 31 minutes later
Sprowl, I'm only starting to learn basic scripting... so I don't really know exactly how to achieve it; I was saying that I think Ben meant that in his post. Maybe with the function "FindKey" (string) you can search the keyvalue 'Activated' and the value "1"... what is the content of your script so far?
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Sprowl
97 Posts
#93978
Posted Apr 24, 2013
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Allright, I'll try out the FindKey-Function.

The script is basicly that + sime functions after that which do some stuff with the entites it did find. I don't want to spoil everything here because I want to use it in my next maps.

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josepezdj
2,386 Posts
#93980
Posted Apr 24, 2013
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There's also "GetKeyBool"... and since the keyvalues 'Activated' value in the prop_portal is a boolean, maybe this can work out better. It returns the boolean value associated to the Keyvalue.
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FelixGriffin
2,680 Posts
#93983
Posted Apr 24, 2013
Replied 3 hours later
The CScriptKeyValues functions would let you do that, but VALVe forgot one thing...there's no way to get the KeyValues root from an entity so you can use the functions on it. :sad:

If you find a way please post it, it would be immensely helpful.

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Sprowl
97 Posts
#94028
Posted Apr 26, 2013
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Hm I tried your functions jose, and they don't work. Just as Felix said. I also tried parenting a trigger_portal_detector to each portal but this doesn't help either. Seems like I have to do it manually with outputs to every fizzler.
Man I really thought there would be a more automatic way.

Well, thanks anyway guys :smile: .

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FelixGriffin
2,680 Posts
#94041
Posted Apr 26, 2013
Replied 2 hours later

There is a slightly easier way. Try this in a precache or OnMapSpawn script.

ent <- null;

do{
    ent = Entities.FindByClassname("trigger_portal_cleanser");
    if(ent == null) break;
    EntFireByHandle(ent,"AddOutput","OnFizzle prop_portal:FireUser1::0:-1",0.0,null,null);
}while(true);

Then make a box with the inactive portals in it at the start so you can give them outputs. Add to each one:

OnUser1 > !self > RunScriptCode > self.SetOrigin(0,0,0)
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Sprowl
97 Posts
#94103
Posted Apr 28, 2013
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Your script didn't work, but I used its idea and rebuild it with entites:

logic_auto:

OnMapSpawn > trigger_portal_cleanser > AddOutput > OnFizzle FizzlePortalRelay:Trigger::0

FizzlePortalRelay (logic_relay):

OnTrigger > BluePortal > FireUser 1
OnTrigger > OrangePortal > FireUser 1
OnTrigger > self > Disable

BluePortal / OrangePortal (prop_portal):

OnUser 1 > NewLocation > 0 0 0 0 0 0
OnUser 1 > SetActivatedState > 0
OnPlacedSuccessfully > FizzlePortalRelay > Enable

Bugfree and easy, just as it should be :biggrin: .
Thanks Felix

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